Why non-critical immigration to Ireland should be stopped immediately

Whether we like it or not, the Irish state was established as an ethnic project. It was decidedly not a racial one; deep in the maw and sinew of the nascent state was commitment to a set of principles which transcended race. The 1916 proclamation, which explicitly acknowledged two communities on the island of Ireland, anticipated the objections of critics like Anderson who questioned all post-colonial national movements

The tiny size of the Irish state has allowed takeover by various globalizing movements, with dreadful consequences. The first such, notoriously, was Roman Catholicism; the people's response to this mediaeval arrangement has formed the stuff of thousands of novels. The second was neoliberalism, with a brief foray into neoconservatism. It is in that context that immigration was encouraged

It is important to point out that no-one advocates a return to the situation wherein Irish women were asked to have more children than they could handle, while living a life recognizable to their sisters abroad as worthy of them. Yet the current situation wherein there are tens of thousands (at least) from abroad on welfare and bringing up their children at a time of mass unemployment and economic meltdown similarly is unacceptable

Given that the Irish people indicated overwhelmingly in a 2004 referendum that Irish citizenship should be reserved to those ethically Irish, immigration to Ireland should be stopped for all except critical jobs like software localization.